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18106 [lbo-talk] Gas prices 2nd highest level ever -- rank: 1000

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: >Wal-Mart claims they are behind the average but their sales are up 11%. The standard comparison used in the retail biz is same-store (aka comparable-store) sales - i.e., stores that have been open a year or more. Comp sales are seen as a better measure of underlying performance, and Wal-Mart has been lagging the averages there. Their sales growth is driven by expansion. As recently as 2003, Wal-Mart was ahead of the industry average in comp sales (4.1% vs. 3. ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 17 07:08:14 PST 2005

18107 [lbo-talk] Wolfowitz -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >If by saying that Wolfowitz is "a highly respected defence >intellectual," Mark Tran means that Wolfowitz is a demented sack of >shit who should be imprisoned for war crimes, I would have to agree. Hey, I read in the Times this morning that Wolfowitz was deeply moved by the plight of the tsunami victims. No reports on how he feels about displaced Fallujans, however. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 17 06:57:44 PST 2005

18108 [lbo-talk] Wolfowitz -- rank: 1000

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: >Any chance he won't be approved? THe NYT thinks it's a sure thing. Their coverage was full of reassurance, with three separate articles assuring us that Wolfowitz is much more complex than his caricature. In a stunning bit of original research, they even managed to discover some development experience in his background. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 17 06:56:34 PST 2005

18109 [lbo-talk] leftwing hate machine -- rank: 1000

Hey, to be fair, wiberals complain about the right-wing hate machine a lot. It's not just the right denouncing PCness on the left, etc. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 17 06:51:22 PST 2005

18110 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Article on China -- rank: 1000

>From lrgoldner at yahoo.com Thu Mar 17 02:46:58 2005 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:46:54 -0800 (PST) From: Loren Goldner <lrgoldner at yahoo.com> Subject: Article on China To: dhenwood at panix.com Dear Doug, I just posted a short article I wrote "China in the Contemporary World Dynamic of Accumulation and Class Struggle" on my web site http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner Could you announce it on your list? Thanks Lor ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 17 06:33:18 PST 2005

18111 [lbo-talk] Conformism in the High-Tech Era -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >A Time magazine cliche from the '60s. >I'm obsessed by Time Magazine. >I read it every week. >Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore. >I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library. >It's always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie >producers are serious. Everybody's serious but me.

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Date:	Wed Mar 16 14:46:44 PST 2005

18112 [lbo-talk] Chavez: From Third Way to Socialism -- rank: 1000

Dennis Redmond wrote: >Iraq proves that all you need for a guerilla war is lots of plastic >explosives, and cellphones for the trigger. It helps to have been part of the secret police and military of the defeated state too. Contacts, equipment, training.

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Date:	Wed Mar 16 13:51:38 PST 2005

18113 [lbo-talk] Wanniski on Wolfie II -- rank: 1000

[The WB gets most of its money from floating bonds, not from "taxpayers including you and me." And it's profitable. But Jude's always fun anyway.] The fully formatted report may be found at <http://polyconomics.com/showarticle.asp?articleid=4238> -------------------------------------------------------- Wolfowitz at the World Bank Mar 16 2005 Memo To: Website Fans, Browsers, Clients From: Jude Wanniski Re: A Perfect Fit If you really don't know what the "World Bank" is a ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 16 13:49:18 PST 2005

18114 [lbo-talk] Bush to nominate comb-licker as WB pres! -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >To borrow Stalin's line about the pope, how many divisions does the >rest of the world have? The U.S. has 16.4% of the votes in the World Bank. Japan, Germany, France, and the UK together have 21.0%. The rest of the rest of the world has 62.7%. So the answer is, plenty of divisions, if they choose to use them. A big if, of course. It's possible this could undermine the tradition that the WB pres is an American. Maybe Europe will be conciliatory. Maybe the French will ge ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 16 13:21:25 PST 2005

18115 [lbo-talk] leftwing hate machine -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >Daily Kos was in the army for pity's sake! And Kerry was in the navy. Doesn't matter. It's all about the pose of militarism, not actual military service. See the interview with Cynthia Enloe I just posted to the LBO website <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Enloe.html>. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 16 13:07:42 PST 2005

18116 [lbo-talk] Re: leftwing hate machine -- rank: 1000

Seth Kulick wrote: >Naomi Klein seems to inspire the same sort of reaction. >For example, Marc Cooper writes today that > >"Norm [Geras] scolds Klein Etc. What is it with these boys & Naomi Klein? Reverse penis envy? Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 16 13:05:50 PST 2005

18117 [lbo-talk] more on Wolfie II -- rank: 1000

Wolfowitz Nominated to Be Next World Bank President March 16 (Bloomberg) -- Paul D. Wolfowitz, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and an architect of the Iraq War, is President George W. Bush's nominee to head the World Bank. Wolfowitz would replace James Wolfensohn, 71, who is retiring when his five-year term ends May 31. The nomination, which by tradition is made by the U.S., must be approved by the World Bank's 184 member countries. At the Pentagon, Wolfowitz, 61, was a strong advocate of t ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 16 12:21:20 PST 2005

18118 [lbo-talk] leftwing hate machine -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Just for the record, put me down in favor of hatred, please. God, do I hate >the motherfuckers. Yes. And fuck the healing! Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 16 11:46:27 PST 2005

18119 [lbo-talk] leftwing hate machine -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >And what about this "hate" crap anyway. Why has that become such a huge meme? Gallup's editor Frank Newport made an interesting point the other day. Musing on why Congress' approval rating has gone down recently, he wondered why, and suggested that it was because they're debating stuff pretty strenuously now - esp Social Security. Americans don't like that (and this is me, not Newport) - they like it when everyone rises above partisanship and works on practical solu ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 16 11:45:07 PST 2005

18120 [lbo-talk] 50 Years statement on Wolfowitz -- rank: 1000

50 YEARS IS ENOUGH: U.S. NETWORK FOR GLOBAL ECONOMIC JUSTICE For Immediate Release March 16, 2005 - 12:30 pm EST WOLFOWITZ TO WORLD BANK?! - CRITICS AMAZED Maybe Worst Possible Choice; Global Opposition to Selection "The Ball is in the Europeans' Court" Two hours ago, President Bush announced his nomination of Paul Wolfowitz, currently Assistant Secretary of Defense, to be the next President of the World Bank. The U.S., by tradition, nominates the World Bank President. Although the B ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 16 09:46:56 PST 2005